THRESHOLD REMARKS. 9 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FAVORS. 



I am under obligation for special favors and assistance to many 

 persons in getting nay work as complete as it is, and I wish to make open 

 acknowledgment in the case. Judge B. S. Eaton has very kindly and gen- 

 erously written out for me many matters of early history which no other 

 living person could tell about. Dr. J. W. Wood loaned me a whole year 

 of his bound volumes of the Pasadena and Valley Union of 1884-85-86 — 

 the only copies in existence ; and it being the only local newspaper here in 

 those years, was the prime authority for dates and data on many historical 

 matters of the transition time from colony to city, that could not to be 

 found elsewhere. I am indebted to H. N. Farey for the valuable table of 

 Pasadena corporations, which he carefully compiled for me from the county 

 records ; besides many other matters in which he generously aided me. 

 Arturo Bandini and wife, and Mrs. Bandini's mother, Mrs. Dr. EUiott, have 

 aided me with loan of books ; with suggestion of books and magazine 

 articles that I needed to see ; with translation of Spanish documents and 

 Spanish terms ; with documents and data of the original " Indiana colony," 

 and of the true origin of the name Pasadena — documents not obtainable 

 but from them. Prof. A. J. McClatchie furnishes me the results of his years 

 of research on the native flora of this region. [See chapter 32, on Botany.] 

 Young Joseph Grinnell gives me the first publication of his complete list of 

 native Pasadena birds. [See chapter 31, on Zoology.] J. B. French has 

 assisted me very much in my researches on the glaciology of this region. 

 James H. Cambell furnished me early in 1894, one of his official record 

 maps of Pasadena city, with all her sub-divisions, streets, city lots, adjacent 

 lands, etc., — a favor exceedingly helpful for identifying streets, land tracts, 

 and other local points. And Byron O. Kendall, from his extensive real 

 estate, insurance, loan and collection agency at 49 E. Colorado street, has 

 furnished as his contribution to the book the very convenient reference map 

 folded in at page 16. P. G. Wooster, Wesley Bunnell and Thomas F. 

 Croft have taken special pains to furnish me with memoranda of events in 

 the colony time, from their diaries ; and Mr. Croft loaned rae for citation the 

 only complete abstract of title of Rancho San Pasqual [after the Garfias 

 patent of 1863] known to be in existence. Mrs. J. De Barth Shorb loaned 

 me the unpublished MSS. autobiography of her father, Hon. B. D. Wilson, 

 which he dictated the year before his death ; besides other historic docu- 

 ments and information furnished by herself and husband. Cha^. A. Gard- 

 ner, Esq., kindly gave me "the freedom of his bailiwick" for frequent 

 research in the bound volumes of the Pasadena Daily Star— a, favor of great 

 value. Messrs. Wood & Church, from their real estate office in the Masonic 

 Temple, furnished me with 300 copies of their valuable and interesting copy- 

 right birdseye map of Pasadena, showing buildings, streets, R. R. lines, 

 fields, mountains, canyons, toll road, etc., as folded in at page 410. 



